People with cancer have different amounts of a type of repetitive DNA - called Alu elements - than people without cancer. Now, machine learning can measure that from a blood draw. Researchers at the ...

An international team of scientists has decoded some of the most stubborn, overlooked regions of the human genome using complete sequences from 65 individuals across diverse ancestries. This milestone ...

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic “junk”, may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. A new ...

Around 25 million years ago, an evolutionary split occurred between our ancestors, the precursors of humans and apes, and ...